The patient, Mr. B, is a single, professional man in his thirties. He came to analysis around the time of his birthday, concerned about his pattern of getting close to older men, and of attempting to become like them by choosing their profession. Subsequently, he felt either angry at them or felt he had no identity. Through this pattern, he had been an artist in three domains. In the recent past, he had started his current professional studies. Most recently, a new ambition had been making him painfully aware of his recurrent pattern.

Mr. B also had specific symptoms. The first one was the fear that “the professional school authorities, specifically the male dean, would discover that they had accepted the wrong student.” In contiguity with his expressed anxiety, he described his blue-collar family